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Ultracold disappearing act

November 2, 2014

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How can two clumps of matter pass through each other without sharing space? Rice University physicists have documented a strange disappearing act by colliding Bose Einstein condensates that appear to keep their distance even as they pass through one another. The research is published online this week in Nature Physics.Full Story

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